bobf@BLUMIRIS.CHEM.UMR.EDU ("Robert B. Funchess") (07/25/90)
If you want a color image transferred to your Mac, and it has less than 256 colors, you can turn it into a GIF file and transport it over. No, you can't print from GIFfer, but you can save the file in PICT format, open it with any of a number of drawing programs and print it THAT way. This is a horrible kludge, but it works most of the time for us... actually, we use Mathematica to print the images on our color printer because a) Mathematica seems to do a reasonable job, unlike a lot of other programs we've tried and b) our site license for Mathematica requires anyone who purchases a Mac on campus to buy the program and we might as well use it... If your image has MORE than 256 colors, Paul Haeberli of SGI wrote a program that will make a GIF file out of it anyway, but it will be dithered. Given our color printer (not a sublimation job, just wax-transfer) the dithering is not particularly noticeable in the final output (the printer's going to dither it anyway). -- Bob Funchess bobf@blumiris.chem.umr.edu Chemistry Dept. University of Missouri - Rolla